Year One Blog

We have been enjoying brushing our teeth after lunch.  We listen to our favourite tooth brushing song to make sure that we brush for two minutes.  We will all have very healthy teeth!

Why not listen to our song when you are brushing at home.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=btGqUT2HEKU

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Thanks to all the children who have brought in a home learning challenge.  This weekend I have suggested to the children that they might like to draw a picture of a creature that they think might live on a coral reef.  They could use the picture from the book to give them some ideas.  Look closely…

This week we have been describing the setting from our new book. At first we thought the story would happen in the small, quiet town overlooking the brilliant blue ocean but we have now realised the story is happening beneath the surface of the warm shallow water!

 We have used lots of…

We all enjoyed our Christmas dinner, a huge thank you to Mrs Derwent and all the kitchen staff who work so hard to make a yummy dinner today and every day!

Everyone worked really well as a team to make our bird feeders.  We hope that lots of people want to buy them at the Christmas fair.

We are getting really good at knowing how many tens and ones make up the teen numbers (14 is 1 ten and 4 ones).  Today we played different games that let us practise our skills.

We all really enjoyed learning about advent and making our Christingles.

We enjoyed using collage materials to create our Great Fire of London lanterns.  We tried cutting and tearing to create the different effects.

This week we have been learning about place value.  We have been finding out what each digit in a two digit number represents.  We realised that the first digit represents how many groups of 10’s there are and the second digit represents how many ones the are.  We spent time representing the teen…

As part of our ongoing work in Science, learning about the seasons, we looked back at the photographs that we took in RE during September. We talked about what had changed and why.  We went out to take some more photos so that we could compare.  In true English Autumn style it starts to rain once…

The children were inspired by watching a video of the fireworks in London to make their own firework pictures.  They explored using different tools to print with and created different patterns and textures with pom-poms, straws, pipe cleaners as well as forks and cotton buds!!!  We also used the…

The children worked really well in their pairs to reassemble their map of the United Kingdom.  As part of our work on the fire of London we have been learning the capital cities of the countries in the United Kingdom.  The children really enjoyed exploring on a google maps finding lots of places…